Welcome to the Nebraska County Fair in 1905.
30 years or so before this postcard was created by hand and mailed, the Nebraska Legislature, realizing the land they had forced numerous tribes to live on was even more valuable than they thought, petitioned Congress for the extinction of the old treaties to create even worse treaties...with the following documented bile:
"Whereas, the Indians now on special reservations in Nebraska hold and occupy valuable and important tracts of land, which while occupied will not be developed and improved; and Whereas the demand for lands which will be improved and made useful, are such that these Indian lands should no longer be held, but should be allowed to pass into the hands of enterprising and industrious citizens;...[W]e urge upon our delegation in Congress to secure the removal of all Indians now on special reservations in Nebraska to other... localities, where their presence will not retard settlements by the whites."
Okay! I wonder how many McDonald's and Wal-Marts have been created by enterprising and industrious citizens on that land by now.
Enjoy the fair!
Original hand drawn promotional postcard, Nebraska 1905 Collection Jim Linderman
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Boy, they just went right ahead and said it, didn't they? Yikes.
ReplyDeleteStunning how transparent they were in that statement.
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